Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Eleanor Birne
• Peter Campbell
• Robert Crawford
• Michael Dobson
• Eamon Duffy
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Piero Gleijeses
• August Kleinzahler
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Graham Robb
• Iain Sinclair
• Theo Tait
• Mary-Kay Wilmers

Contents

• Andrew O’Hagan
  The Nominee: With the Democrats

• Letters
  Stephen Mulhall, Debbie Lawlor, Jeremy Mitchell, Jerome Shipman, J.A. Kirkpatrick, David Cormack, Paula Woods, Carolyne Larrington, Sarah Howe, Paul Delany, Jeremy Whitehurst, J. P. Roos, Nicholas Gomez

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger by Richard Pipes
  • Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present edited by Samuel Baron and Cathy Frierson

• Michael Dobson

  • The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs
  • Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines: Journeys through the Elizabethan Underground by Roy Kendall
  • Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
  • History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe by Rodney Bolt

• Eamon Duffy

  • The Reformation of the Image by Joseph Leo Koerner

• Robert Crawford
  Poem: ‘Omens’

• August Kleinzahler
  My Girls: A Memoir: parents, lovers and a poetic punch-up

• Mary-Kay Wilmers
  Short Cuts: remembering Paul Foot

• Theo Tait

  • Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath

• Eleanor Birne

  • Love by Toni Morrison

• Piero Gleijeses

  • The Real Fidel Castro by Leycester Coltman

• Peter Campbell
  In the Park: John Nash stucco and Aussies with frisbees

• Iain Sinclair

  • Collected Poems by Tom Raworth
  • Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth edited by Nate Dorward

• Graham Robb
  Diary: the Tour de France